NEW video out today! Lightfoot by Brittany Jean - You can find it on YouTube
Growing up, we always (and I mean always) had music playing in our house. Whether the radio was tuned to US99 Country Radio or 90.1 Moody Radio or if we had a record, cassette, or CD spinning, music was a constant, colorful backdrop. Our parents introduced us kids to artists who have remained my favorites ever since, from John Denver and Judy Collins to Emmylou Harris and Anne Murray... and of course, Gordon Lightfoot.
I heard (what I thought were ALL of) Gordon Lightfoot's songs so often when I was a kid that just a few measures of one of his melodies can put me back in my eight year old shoes.
So many of his songs are dear old friends of mine. In high school, I discovered a new-to-me Gordon Lightoot album, and his achingly perfect "Too Late for Prayin'" made me take a closer look at his lyrics. What a writer. He wrote some truly beautiful treasures. And lines that are so well-crafted I wish I could've thought of them first. (Except I wasn't born yet when he wrote 'em. So... that's not fair.)
From that point on, I admired his writing in an entirely new way. I was seeing his work for the first time. I wanted to write like that, and I hoped to be able to thank him someday for the way his library inspired me (and continues to do so)...
This song is my thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Lightfoot, for the tapestry of music and lyrics you wove through my childhood to this very day.
